importer
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 75 U.S. 110 - Waring v. Mayor · 1868Most cited · 64 citing opinions
the settled law is that no one but the owner or consignee, or in case of his sickness or absence, his agent or factor, is authorized to discharge that obligation [of entering goods at the custom-house]
How often courts cite the case defining “importer”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “importer” — 64 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.